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AWS – Amazon RDS Custom now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. You can choose gp3 […]

AWS – Amazon Omics now enables batch variant store imports
Amazon Omics now supports batch import of variant data into Omics variant stores. You can now import up to 1,000 variant call format (VCF) and genome VCF (gVCF) files in a single variant import job. This simplifies how you bring population scale variant data into Omics and make it available for analysis. Read More for the […]

Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
Using Azure Image Builder’s new portal functionality, you can now build and validate custom images inside the portal. Now available! Read More for the details.

GCP – Confidential Space: The future of privacy-preserving collaboration
Today, we are happy to announce that Confidential Space is Generally Available. Confidential Space builds on our Confidential Computing portfolio. It provides a secure enclave, also known as a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), that our Google Cloud customers can leverage for privacy-focused use cases such as joint data analysis and machine learning (ML) model training. […]

GCP – How BCW is using decentralized technology on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s blog discusses efforts by Arkhia, the organization developed by BCW Group, to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Web3 backend solutions for blockchain & DLT developers. It is the first of three posts. BCW is a Web3 venture studio and enterprise consulting firm serving enterprise clients who want to integrate existing products or otherwise […]

GCP – IBM Spectrum Scale is now available in Google Cloud
Google Cloud and Sycomp are introducing Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale. This launch is highly useful for customers looking to run HPC, AI/ML, and big data workloads on a proven file system, in a fully-persistent deployment, and with Google’s Cloud Storage integration for cost optimization. Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale optimizes […]

GCP – Accelerate database modernization with Google Cloud Ready – AlloyDB validated partners
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise database workloads. With AlloyDB, you can free yourself from expensive, legacy databases with restrictive licensing. For extended capabilities such as migration tooling, analytics or database observability, at the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit, we launched Google Cloud Ready – […]

GCP – Hayyakom, Doha! New Google Cloud region now open in Qatar
Businesses across the Middle East are choosing Google Cloud to help them build applications faster, deliver awesome experiences to their users and transform their business, all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. To meet the needs of our growing customer base, we are excited to announce the new Google Cloud region in Doha is […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTP status and response generation using CloudFront Functions
Starting today, you can use CloudFront Functions to further customize responses to viewers, including changing the HTTP status code and replacing the HTTP body of the response. CloudFront Functions is a serverless edge computing feature on CloudFront built for lightweight HTTP transformations that runs in the 450+ CloudFront edge locations globally. Read More for the […]